NCT04151784

Factors That Impact the Relationship Between Pulmonary Status and Susceptibility to Electronic Cigarette Use

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to explores various psycho-social, physiological, cognitive, behavioral, and environmental factors that may affect the association between pulmonary status and Susceptibility to Electronic Cigarette Use

Detailed description

In this study self-report questionnaires will be distributed and it should take between 20-25 minutes. Participants will be be asked questions related to smoking history, e-cigarette use, psychosocial factors, behavioral factors, environmental factors, and cognitive factors. There is also an option of taking a web-based survey, Qualtrics® (Qualtrics, Provo, UT), if they do not have enough time to complete the surveys at this time. The online version of the questionnaires will be sent to the one week from now. There is also a follow-up 5 minutes call with 6 months after today to follow-up with any change regarding to e-cigarette use.

Conditions

• Electronic Cigarette Use
• Pulmonary Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pulmonary Group	Data collection will be obtained on the day an individual has an appointment at the pulmonary clinic. After patients meet with their pulmonary physicians, the physicians will inform them about the study and explain that participation is voluntary. If a patient agrees, the researcher will provide copies of the questionnaires and again clarify that participation is voluntary. The workflow of the clinic will not be interrupted while the researcher conducts the study, and he will only ask participants to fill out the questionnaires if they have enough time to participate.
OTHER	Healthy Control	The second group will be recruited as a control group consisting of healthy adult participants through purposive convenience sampling at other collaborating UAB sites. The principal investigator will collect self-report responses through a questionnaire packet given to anyone willing to participate in the study

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-01
• Primary completion: 2021-05-05
• Completion: 2021-05-20
• First posted: 2019-11-05
• Last updated: 2021-05-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States